Carcinomas occur when the DNA of a cell is damaged or altered and the cell begins to grow uncontrollably and become malignant. It is from the Greek ÎºÎ±ÏÎºÎ¯Î½ÏÎ¼Î± 'karkinoma' meaning sore, ulcer, or cancer, itself derived from karkinos 'crab'.
Service Driven By Integrity and Professionalism. Carter County covers an area of about 500 square miles and is located in the Ozark Highlands of Missouri. Approximately half of the six thousand county residents live in the small municipalities of Van Buren, Ellsinore, Grandin, Hunter and Fremont. The remaining residents are dispersed throughout the mostly remote rural areas of the county.
The mean center of the United States population at the 2010 census was in the town of Plato in Texas County. The state's capital is Jefferson City. The land that is now Missouri was acquired from France as part of the Louisiana Purchase and became known as the Missouri Territory. Part of this territory was admitted into the union as the 24th state on August 10, 1821.